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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to the Clyde Zone
Media Roundtable.
Roundtable of two.
We may have some other
members as we go into this conversation.
But you went and did early voting.
I did.
I went and did early voting.
So Thursdays are my day off.
So I just decided to just do it today.
So I did.
I have never really voted.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I didn't even have to, I mean,
it took me longer to drive
there and back than it did
to go through the whole process.
Yeah.
Our polling center is never,
like there's so many voting
machines in our polling center.
Like it's, and it's never busy.
Like I can go, I walk in and I walk out.
Yeah.
So I just do it on election day.
Sure.
And we get, as a state worker,
we get like an hour to vote.
You know,
I'm glad to hear that because I
was actually saying that I
feel like every person
should have that opportunity,
either be paid to go vote
or given the time off to go
vote during the workday.
Yeah.
Dense Update says, same,
early voting is so clutch.
Agreed.
I don't know if you guys saw,
but Dense Updates,
we actually had her on our show,
full interview.
If you don't know who Jenny is,
go check that out.
But she just,
her Dense Updates was an
Instagram reel and is now a
full YouTube channel.
And it just got picked up by
the Savon platform recently.
So big audience for her,
and that's a huge
opportunity and a huge
congratulations to her because, honestly,
she is a must-watch for me.
She takes all this drama and
nonsense that's going on in
the CrossFit world, breaks it all down,
and then I know what I need
to go follow up on to know more about.
So she kind of sorts it all
into like a nice little ten
minute presentation.
And then you just go, OK,
that's what I want to know
more about that one.
I don't care about whatever.
But she and and she watches
all the channels.
So like.
No biases or anything.
She actually watches them
all and then reports on them all.
Nice.
Which is really cool.
It's also a special day.
It's Halloween.
this is Halloween, this is Halloween,
Halloween.
Yes, I love Halloween.
I did not expect a song.
Well, you know, I coached this morning.
I don't normally coach on Thursday,
but I swapped with somebody.
And so I got to get into the
Halloween spirit at five a.m.
OK.
And I had I took Murph with
me because he was part of my costume.
I recycled a costume for the gym today.
And that costume was I was
little red riding hood and
Murph was a big bad wolf.
So we've done that before,
but he has a different
costume that he's going to wear tonight.
And,
and this is an example of what happens
when your kids grow up and
you all still love the
holiday and loved the
aspect of like getting
costumes ready for little people.
And so now I just do that for my dog.
So that's an example of,
of a mom that's missing her
kids when they were young.
Walter has one costume.
He is part Chihuahua, part Yorkie.
But we dive into the
Chihuahua side and we have
a sombrero and a sarab, whatever,
that like goes over his body.
Got it.
And he's really cute,
but he does not like the hat.
He tries to get it off as
quickly as possible.
Well, tonight,
Murph's costume is Dobby the
house elf from Harry Potter.
And I literally came up with
that last second because he
always like sometimes when
you're talking to him,
like he pulls his ears back.
Right.
And so he loves it when
we're folding laundry.
And so we were folding
laundry and sometimes we'll
lay a sock on his head and we'll say,
Dobby has been given a sock.
Dobby is free.
And he just sits there.
And so then I was like,
I think I could make this a costume.
So I did.
And there it is.
And he's free.
He's free.
Yeah.
Very nice.
Yes.
But do you guys normally get
a lot of trick-or-treaters?
We usually get a ton.
Yeah.
So many.
Our neighborhood is so busy
with trick-or-treat,
but I'm not on the main street.
But there's a lot of
activity in the neighborhood,
but we don't get a ton of
trick-or-treaters.
But I still love it.
Yeah.
If we don't have at least
five hundred pieces of candy,
we won't have enough.
Now I'm going to ask you
this question because I've
been noticing you've been
turning into a little, sometimes,
sometimes a little bit of a
grumpy old man we've talked about.
Yes.
Okay.
Admittedly.
Yes.
Okay.
I'm embracing it.
Okay.
So let's say some teenagers
come up to your house and
they're not in a costume
and they say trick or treat.
Are you going to give them candy?
I usually get vetoed by my wife.
So you give them candy?
I do not.
She will though.
well good for her yeah my
old neighbor used to save
like other holiday candy
yeah if a teenager came up
in a non costume he would
give them like a
valentine's candy necklace
or an easter chocolate
easter bunny or like that
kind of stuff so this
checks out with what I was
expecting you to say
I view it as why not hold on
to childhood as long as you
can and if that means you
decide last minute to go
walk around the
neighborhood with your
friends for some candy I'm
here for it I'll give you
candy I don't care I I okay
so if they come up and
they're very friendly and
they're cordial and they're
having a conversation with
me then sure I don't even
blink but if they're like
very disrespectful and just
like flying by with the bag
like put the candy in the bag like sure
I can see that.
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But the last couple years,
Halloween night has been
awful weather here in Ohio.
And they're calling for rain
again tonight.
Yeah, but at least it'll be warm.
Well, warm rain.
Yeah, that's just lovely.
Well, it's way better than cold rain.
Yeah.
I guess we go,
we normally go out to the
end of the driveway.
Yeah.
So the kids don't have to like come up in.
Yeah.
And if it rains them off to
just be on the porch.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We normally sit with the fire pit,
like on the, the driveway,
but turns out we used our
fire pit last week and we
leave it out all year.
And it it's,
there's a hole it's disintegrated.
So no fire tonight.
last question about
halloween okay what is your
most overrated candy and
what is your favorite candy
so number one I just don't
generally love candy at all
to be to be honest like it
wouldn't bother if we don't
give it all away it's not
going to bother me I won't
really go for it yeah um
but I would say like I
don't I don't like like
really chewy stuff like
tootsie rolls or taffy any
of that kind of stuff
what I would say is overrated.
But I do.
I mean,
I could eat a Kit Kat or like some
of a Reese's cup.
Sometimes a Reese's cup
feels too rich for me.
But I like those kinds of flavors.
I would say chocolate and peanut butter.
Yeah,
my most overrated I would say is like
the Butterfinger.
Okay, yeah.
That's like in everything
and many details going on there.
And whatever it is in the
middle gets stuck in your teeth.
Yeah.
Um, but the,
like the most underrated and I
am a nerds freak.
Like I would steal all the
nerds from Corey's bucket
back in the day.
Okay.
I'm going to add one story to that.
Cause last night the office
had the Halloween episode on and we,
we hadn't watched it for so
long and just forgot all the,
some of the one-liners that were good.
And Dwight sitting there
eating nerds and he goes, Oh, look, Jim,
I'm eating you.
it was just so good I think
my wife watches the office
every night going yeah I
mean it's always on no
matter when you turn on the
tv and jody is right my
goal is to like have zero
candy by the end of the
night yeah so none no none
comes back in the house
like if you're coming by in
that last twenty minutes
you're getting a handful of candy from me
And a great pro tip if you
have a weakness towards
candy is buy the candy that
you don't like so that if it's left over,
oh, well, don't eat it.
Yeah.
Agreed.
Yeah.
So I have one more like
overall topic I wanted to
ask your opinion about.
Oh, here we go.
Did you watch the baseball
game two nights ago?
know the answer to that I
but I wanted to make sure
we're a sports household
but that is one sport we
don't watch so I'm going to
share my screen okay so
there was a foul ball in
the game did you hear about
this no so as you can see
right here the dodger jumps
up and catches the ball
over the fence okay this gentleman here
grabs him by the glove and
tries to pull the glove off of his hand.
When you look on the next screen on this,
you see him grabbing the glove,
trying to pull it,
and then his buddy grabs
the other arm of the player.
Not okay.
I'm not okay with that.
I was listening to some shows yesterday.
Yeah.
J.J.
Watt said I would punch him in the mouth.
And then we'll see how many
people try it again.
It's not appropriate at all.
So these two people were
removed by security and they are banned.
Good.
Coming back.
Good.
And they gave their tickets
to a fifteen-year-old
cancer patient and his
family to come to game five last night.
That's okay.
That's a redeeming quality.
Right.
But what they did...
Like, I think charges should be pressed.
That is.
I can see getting caught up
in the heat of the moment
that like your first
reaction might be to grab like the, the,
like the first time,
like just to grab it.
And then, then you're like, oh, oh,
I just realized what I'm doing.
I'm like, oh, but for, for it to continue,
definitely this jabroni
here in response to what
happened said that if he
pulled the ball out,
then it wouldn't be an out.
That's not even, like, logical.
No.
But what a mess.
Yeah.
I feel for these players that, like,
who knows what's next, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's really inappropriate.
Andrew Sten says,
MLB should ban them all
from them from all stadiums for life.
I don't disagree.
I don't disagree.
But anyway,
I just wanted to get your
opinion on that because
that happened this week and
we cover sports, right?
And that could happen in
CrossFit just like it
happened in the MLB.
So.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
So you coached this morning.
Did you get any fitness in?
I did, but I did so yesterday.
I just, it was so beautiful out, right?
Cause it's unseasonably warm.
And I thought my days are
numbered out on the trails.
So I, for the season.
So I went for a run yesterday,
which was not part of like
the programming,
but today's workout had
some running in it.
And so I coached this
morning and then I just did
some of the strength from
yesterday and the strength today.
So I just called today a strength day.
so that's acceptable that's
good yeah I got some
movement in and I mean but
I had almost seven thousand
steps before eight forty
five a.m so wow yeah but
I've seen you coach yeah I
move around a lot you move
you move a lot during
coaching um yeah yeah I've
had some back spasms this week
And it's not while I'm working out.
It's like after I'm done
working out and I'll be
just relaxing and then it
just catches me.
Oh, it's so bad.
But it's not structural.
It's just muscle.
And it's been a long time
since I've had them.
It's probably your spinal erectors.
So a lot of TENS machine,
a lot of stretching.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This week.
And trying to not go so heavy on things.
Just nice and light this week.
Yeah.
All movement.
Movement is good.
Movement, movement.
I won a bet with Carolyn
Prevo last week at the Penn
State Wisconsin game.
Oh.
And she has to do death by
burpees this week.
Oh,
I would never make a bet that included
death by burpees as a dumb bet.
So the original,
the original bet was death
by assault bike.
Still dumb.
She chose to switch it to burpees.
Dumb.
Yeah.
So I mean, but I guess if she has to do it,
then she has to do it.
You know what this week is?
Yes.
Penn State, Ohio State.
I do not.
The undefeated Nittany Lions.
It's true.
Taking on the one loss,
Ohio State Buckeyes in Happy Valley.
Uh-huh.
Yep.
And Penn State is all up in
arms because Fox decided to
move it to the big noon kickoff.
And that means we don't get
the whiteout at night.
Oh, no whiteout.
So we have to play at noon.
Well, where will you be watching it?
Remember the one time you
came over and we watched it outside?
Yeah,
that's why that'll never happen again.
Why?
Which part?
Because one, it was freezing cold.
It was cold.
And it was outside.
And two,
Penn State got slaughtered that night.
Yes, that is true.
I watched the,
so there is a Penn State
Alumni Association here in Central Ohio.
Okay.
Our mutual friends are a part of.
And that's where I watched
the Wisconsin game last week with them.
And there's a new tavern at
the old Ruby Tuesday building.
Yeah.
Have you been there?
No, I haven't yet.
Is it really?
Yeah.
Right by my house.
Right by your house.
Yeah.
I mean, I've been watching them build that,
but yeah.
Yeah.
They made garage doors on the one side.
Yeah.
Patio.
It's really nice inside.
They have like a one-man
acoustic band playing on Friday nights.
And it's really nice inside.
Before we move on,
are you worried about the
coach's record against Ohio State?
Listen, it's a new year.
We don't care about it.
So, yeah.
Okay, back to Ruby Tuesday's place.
Do you like their pizza there?
It's not my style of pizza.
It's that Ohio stuff that I don't like.
But they've added like a Sicilian,
but I haven't tried that yet.
But again,
it's almost like two separate businesses.
Pizza place is on one side
and the tavern is on another.
So...
Yeah.
I think you would dig it.
Okay.
I'll tell the... And each
booth has its own TV that
you can turn to whatever
sports thing you want.
Yeah.
Solid.
Cool.
So I'm going to share my screen again.
Okay.
And ask you your opinion
about this because it's one
of your favorite people.
So this popped up two days ago.
Okay.
It is the World Fitness Project.
And if you look right here,
it says Sports League.
I'll try to blow it up.
Okay.
Maybe, there we go.
Okay.
See that Sports League?
Yeah.
They only have one post.
It says coming soon.
And there's only the one
post with nothing on it.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
This is Will Morad's.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
new fitness league.
Now if you go back and
listen to his interview on
coffee pods and wads,
he talks about how the season
is not a professional season
that it needs to be
different and it needs to
not be a one like a head
for one CrossFit Games
where it's all or nothing
single elimination through
all these steps he thinks
it should go back to more
of like a sanctional year
where you have different
options to compete to get
yourself to the championship
We don't have any details on this.
He's not commenting until they have more.
But I think last week we
said it was going to be
really hard for a new
league to step up without
announcing any details at this point.
So I'm still skeptical,
and I don't know who's backing it.
If you look at the original
followers or who they follow,
it's the LRX company owner.
Oh, yeah.
He's a local guy.
And right.
And one other person.
Okay.
So I don't know if they're
behind this and backing it.
It's all speculation at this point.
Yeah.
But he did.
He did talk on that coffee
pods and wads info about that.
A new season wouldn't have
to be a rival to the CrossFit games.
It could be an addition to
running kind of at the same time.
Right.
So.
Unless CrossFit decided to do, oh,
if you do this event, you can't do this,
our events.
They've never done that in the past, but.
Okay.
That's true.
But they could.
Yeah.
And then the other thing,
I will say that both at the
CrossFit Games and at the
Masters CrossFit Games,
I did hear rumblings around
the training think tank
folks that something was coming.
Now,
that is where Will Morad is
technically a member of now.
Yeah, there's been some changes there.
So I don't know if that
means that Training Think
Tank is any part of this,
or they were talking about Will,
who is a part of Training Think Tank.
And so the Training Think
Tank folks kind of knew
that he was coming with this.
Yeah.
But I did hear rumblings
about this both at the
CrossFit Games and at the
Masters CrossFit Games.
But seriously, already for posting nothing,
there's quite a bit of followers.
Correct.
Correct.
Again,
I think it's going to be really hard
to launch a brand new league this late.
And I believe he's been
working on this since
before the CrossFit Games,
meaning this came before
the tragic event that happened there,
that this was always a plan
of his to come up with
something different than
the current CrossFit Games season.
But
It's interesting.
I still have some
reservations about stuff.
I think one mistake that
CrossFit has made is they
don't include the fans in
the equation or the spectators.
I don't think CrossFit
includes the athletes much
in the equation as to what
they should be.
Like if you look at what
they sell for merchandise,
what does CrossFit sell?
Shirts that say CrossFit.
Mm-hmm.
Shirts that say CrossFit Games.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
What?
If you look at your favorite
NFL team or player.
Yeah, has names on jerseys.
You can buy jerseys and stuff.
You don't buy NFL shirts.
Or a college will buy NCAA shirts.
You don't wear a shirt that says football.
I mean, well, you might,
but it would have other
things attached to it.
Right.
Yeah.
And so they CrossFit has
left that up to the
athletes to kind of do on their own.
And I don't think they have the,
the ability to produce at a
level that makes sense, right.
Where the NFL licenses, all that,
or MLB or NCAA or whatever.
And then they sell that
stuff on bulk and actually
make money with that and
give fans the ability to
support the people they want.
Sure.
And I think these new
leagues that I've heard so
far are very athlete-centric.
And again,
I think they're leaving out the
spectator part of it.
Because in the end,
where you're making your
money is merchandise sales, ticket sales,
streaming sales,
all these things that the
fans will pay the money for.
And I think the first league
that does that has a leg up.
Because right now your only
income is CrossFit is the
open and whatever you pay
throughout that season and sponsors.
You're not factoring and
maybe some ticket sales,
but you're not selling many
live event things anyway.
Right.
So Jay Birch is asking so he
would put on multiple comps.
Again,
everything is speculation at this point,
Jay Birch.
But it sounds like he would...
almost work with or partner
with other existing competitions.
And what he was kind of
talking about is more of
like a point system.
Like you could earn so many
points at this event,
so many points at that event,
and the people with the
highest points go to a
stage where they would compete.
Again, all of this is speculation.
If you listen to the interview,
his thought process went
down a couple different
paths at points of it.
Like I think they were still
in the refining process.
So I don't know where they've landed.
But it's interesting,
at least the rumors of
there being a competitor are true.
And we know that now for a fact.
We just don't know what it
means or what it looks like.
Yeah,
I'm sure there's a lot to work
through and work out.
It's definitely time consuming.
So I haven't listened to it,
but you mentioned,
did you listened all the
way through on the Haley
Adams Mayhem podcast?
I did.
And what are your takeaways from that?
So,
This is Haley's first
interview with the Mayhem
Media team since she's been back.
And the interview was done by Rory.
And I know that they were
tight back in the day.
So it's a very open and
honest conversation.
She talks more about her
eating disorder in this
than she does in anything else I've seen.
talks about like the use of
laxatives talks about how
she had a nutrition coach
but she was adding stuff to
her log to make them think
she was eating more than
she was um but now that
she's better she can't
believe she was as
successful as she was with
the lack of nutrition that
was going in so what is the
potential of her moving forward yeah
So that, that was really interesting.
She also talked about that
coming back to mayhem.
She was afraid that people
would be mad that she left.
And, um,
and she was really surprised at
how welcoming they were to
her coming back.
And that she said over and over again,
that she's never leaving again.
Like this is where her home is,
but she had to, yes.
She had to get away because
she felt guilty about any
time she wasn't training.
She had to get herself out
of that environment to go
basically be a kid, be a teenager, be,
and do all those silly
things that when she was training,
didn't fit with trying to
be a games champion.
Yeah.
Right.
So she did nine months of no training.
And then when she came back,
she said it was, it was rough.
Yeah, I'm sure.
And she's glad that certain
people didn't see her at
that time because it was
she questioned herself as
to whether she could get
back because it was really
bad when she first came back.
But it's really good.
You can just sense her being
different now than she was before.
And again, she's what, twenty three?
Yeah.
Like so young.
so yeah the maturity is
adding into that as well um
yeah she has more lived
experience too like you know
But Rory said at the end of
it that they were pretty
vague on some of the things
because this is really just
they wanted to have these
conversations over and over again.
And so they will keep
bringing her back to talk
some more and more.
She wants to talk about all
she went through to inspire
others and make sure other
people don't go down
certain paths that maybe she did.
Yeah.
I feel like Ellie Turner was
going to do something similar,
but I haven't seen anything.
I haven't seen anything.
Yeah.
Do you remember what I'm talking about,
though?
Yeah.
Yeah, two years ago.
She got hurt,
and then Justin had bombed
kind of that year,
and they both came out on
their YouTube podcast.
They were going to travel.
They were going to do this,
and more of her things
would be coming out.
I think,
I think a lot of people think it's
easy to produce content, um,
until they get into it.
Like how many episodes did
the daughter's podcast last?
Three.
Yeah.
Right.
Like it,
a lot of people come out with
these ideas and say, Hey,
we're going to do this.
We're going to do that.
But it takes time to sit
down at a microphone.
It takes time to produce the stuff.
It takes time to edit it.
Like you have to be in it and.
I think the thought of it is you're like,
well, that'll be easy.
I'll just hold a camera and talk into it.
And then when you get into, you're like,
wow, this is some work.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And my priority is training
and trying to win the games,
not producing content.
Right.
Although you probably get more,
more chance to make money
producing content than
winning at the games, but different,
different goals.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's all about your sponsors
and what their priority is.
Right.
Sure.
Priority you performing at
the games or is there a
priority you putting out ads for them?
Okay.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
And some, some are, I mean,
Tia does both Tia,
like you go to her Instagram,
it's all ads.
But other people it's,
they just do their training and,
You see the grips they're
wearing while they're doing toes-to-bar,
and they don't really talk about it.
You know?
Yeah.
So I think my – and just
back on the rival leagues,
my biggest fear is that
CrossFit isn't big enough.
This sport isn't big enough
to handle divides at this point.
Yes.
But as the goal to make
something from the ground,
like that will thrive better.
Well,
I think that's what everybody's idea is.
Yeah.
If it,
if four different leagues come in
and a quarter of the
athletes go to each one,
then you've got watered
down product in all four of them.
And then do they all die?
Yeah.
jokingly yesterday on, uh,
on around the whiteboard, uh, CPT from,
or CTP from TTT.
That's hard to say was
jokingly comparing it to wrestling.
But the reality was that WCW
and WWE or WWF were two
entities that could fight
against each other and the
strong survived in the end.
And the other one went away
or got bought out by the other.
I don't think we're big
enough at this point to have that happen.
That actually elevated both
of them for a while.
And then WWE got elevated so
much that they got better
and they were able to take over.
And his,
his point was we need the
competition to make people
actually make change that
is meaningful and get better.
Yeah.
I don't disagree with that concept.
I just don't hope we're big
enough to handle it.
Sure.
Because if a rival league
comes and they compete and
CrossFit actually makes
change to compete back,
then that's a good thing.
And both are elevated.
And then whichever one wins in the end,
great.
Whichever one doesn't,
they go by the wayside.
I don't know.
I mean, it's happened in a lot of sports.
AFL and the NFL were two
leagues that combined into
one eventually.
Yeah.
I just hope we're big enough
to withstand the... Yeah.
We'll see.
We'll see what happens.
And Corey says the XFL.
The XFL was a bad league,
but they had a lot of
innovative ideas that
actually moved over to the NFL.
The reason you have that
camera on the strings that
goes over top the field was
because the XFL tried that.
because they wanted to put
bring you inside the huddle
and they wanted to now that
stuff went away because
nobody wants to give away
the secrets but but the
innovation that the xl file
brought was top notch so
all right well that's about
our lunch and I have a one
o'clock meeting okay
so uh I've got to get out of
here but it's been fun as
always and you and the chat
your guys are awesome corey
jay birch craig andrew mlk
dense jenny you're you guys
are awesome and we
appreciate you so much
thank you all for being
here and enjoy halloween
Have a happy Halloween tonight.
Be safe.
And don't eat the candy.
Just give it away.
Give it away.
Give it away now.
With that,
we'll see everybody next time on
Gladstone Media Roundtable.
Bye, guys.